Sara got to stay in the hospital last week. I ended up taking her into the E.R. at 5 a.m. Monday morning because she was throwing up and running a 102 fever. Now with any other child you might think "ok here we go, got the flu". But with Sara it is a lot different.
It could mean a UTI, hydrocephalus needs fixed, her tummy, or the flu. Well we can't take any chances with this girl. When she gets sick she regresses with any progress that she makes, if I bring her home she will get worse and I will have to take her back in. Also when she throws up she throws her body and head back, she gets stiff and she can asperate it into her lungs. She threw up like 5 times in less than an hour and she was dry heaving at this point.
So, off to the E.R. we went. Well we got there and she was starting to get dehydrated, her fever was down (but I think it was around 22 degress out, so I' m sure that helped), but she was still dry heaving. They did a U.A., lab work, and a chest and belly x-ray. She was spent. They needed up giving her phenagren to help her with the throwing up and tried to put in an I.V. to get her re-hydrated.
So with all of that it was determened that she should stay in observation because her tummy were full and blocked, she had a U.T.I., and she was dehydrated. If we stayed than we could get a handle on all of it and she would get better faster and possible not regress. Well she did her time (observation is 23 hours of care), we came home Tusday of last week and she has been getting back to her happy self. So we have been home getting ready for Tyler and Sara's birthday party in between Thanksgivings. What a mess!
Today my little man is 11! Goodness how time flys and next Sunday Sara is going to be five. It doesn't seem possible at all that they are getting so old. How wonderfull too with everything that they have been through. I have been so blessed to have them both in my life because God could have taken both of them from me at anytime. Praise the Lord for my babies! I hope that all of you feel the same about your children because no matter if you have a special needs child or not they are all gifts from God!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Just another day in Paradise! Plus Birthdays!
Sara and Tyler seem to be grumpy these days. I think that it is going around though. Between the time change and weather change I think we all have a right to get a little grumpy. The good thing about the moods is that it comes and goes. So I do get a little break from it.
We are working with Sara on how to open presents. She loves to feel it rip and she like to pull at the paper too. She is doing so good for the girls now that work with her. Sara is doing so well that she is starting to get more vocal with them. Which is nice because she use to not utter a single sound til they left.
She is also starting to try to get out of doing work by throwing fits. It is funny and then again it isn't. I don't want her thinking that she can just throw a fit and get out of working with them. They are only here for an hour. But on the other hand I wonder if her back is really hurting. Who knows?!
Tyler has been giving me fits too, hence the title "Just another day in Paradise". So we are starting something new with him. We are going to let him earn money. I was watching Super nanny and she used this method. We don't believe in paying him for chores.
That is something that we all do as a family. So we are going to give him $10 a week but there is a catch. If he does any of the negative things during the week we take a quarter out of the $10. So we will add up all of the tallies and subtract it from the $10. Easy, Easy!!
He loves it! He said "Oh, man! If I'm good I can have $20 in two week, that is awesome!" So I hope it works, I will let you guys know. Sorry that this is taking so long! But there is something important that I want to say. My kids birthdays are coming.
It really is special because how hard they both had to fight to stay here with us. Tyler is going to be 11 (Nov 30) and Sara is going to be 5 (Dec 7) !! Praise the Lord!
We are working with Sara on how to open presents. She loves to feel it rip and she like to pull at the paper too. She is doing so good for the girls now that work with her. Sara is doing so well that she is starting to get more vocal with them. Which is nice because she use to not utter a single sound til they left.
She is also starting to try to get out of doing work by throwing fits. It is funny and then again it isn't. I don't want her thinking that she can just throw a fit and get out of working with them. They are only here for an hour. But on the other hand I wonder if her back is really hurting. Who knows?!
Tyler has been giving me fits too, hence the title "Just another day in Paradise". So we are starting something new with him. We are going to let him earn money. I was watching Super nanny and she used this method. We don't believe in paying him for chores.
That is something that we all do as a family. So we are going to give him $10 a week but there is a catch. If he does any of the negative things during the week we take a quarter out of the $10. So we will add up all of the tallies and subtract it from the $10. Easy, Easy!!
He loves it! He said "Oh, man! If I'm good I can have $20 in two week, that is awesome!" So I hope it works, I will let you guys know. Sorry that this is taking so long! But there is something important that I want to say. My kids birthdays are coming.
It really is special because how hard they both had to fight to stay here with us. Tyler is going to be 11 (Nov 30) and Sara is going to be 5 (Dec 7) !! Praise the Lord!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sitting and other good things!
On Monday Sara sat by herself for 3-5 minutes off and on while ANW was here! We are so proud of her. She has also decided to do half of an army crawl. Instead of her using her forearms to move her upper body, she uses her shoulders and she is getting around half of the living room. She is every where, it is great and I think that we are going to be in trouble.
We haven't baby proofed anything for 10 years I think. Scary! I told my friend that she is going to have to come over and help me do it (she has 2 toddlers). I think that she will be able to handle it better than I could. Don't get me wrong, it is a GREAT problem to have.
From here on out til Christmas we are going to work on opening presents and tearing paper. We would love for her to open her own presents. She likes pulling paper out of bags but I have always opened them for her. She loves to see what she got but it would be nice to see her sit there opening her own presents. Well I hope that everyone got out and voted today! We did!!!!!
We haven't baby proofed anything for 10 years I think. Scary! I told my friend that she is going to have to come over and help me do it (she has 2 toddlers). I think that she will be able to handle it better than I could. Don't get me wrong, it is a GREAT problem to have.
From here on out til Christmas we are going to work on opening presents and tearing paper. We would love for her to open her own presents. She likes pulling paper out of bags but I have always opened them for her. She loves to see what she got but it would be nice to see her sit there opening her own presents. Well I hope that everyone got out and voted today! We did!!!!!
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